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Contact:        Prof. Michael Hoff, Professor of Art History, UNL, 472-5342, mhoff1@unl.edu
What:            Archaeological Institute of America, Public Lecture
Presenter:     Dr. Andrew Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture Title: Tel Dor: An Ancient Crossroads on the Coast of Israel
Date:             Monday, April 16, 2007
Where:          Room 15, Richards Hall, Stadium Drive, UNL
Time:            7:30 PM



The Lincoln - Omaha Society of the Archaeological Institute of America announces its sixth and final lecture of the 2006-07 season. Dr. Andrew Stewart, an archaeologist and art historian specializing in the Greek and Roman cities of the eastern Mediterranean, will deliver a lecture on his excavation at Tel Dor in Israel.

Situated on a magnificent stretch of the Carmel coast, the Phoenician city of Dor was a critical crossroads of ancient culture. Professor Stewart's lecture, based on two decades of excavation by Jerusalem's Hebrew University and a U.C. Berkeley team directed by the lecturer, sketches its development as a center of East-West interaction under Phoenician, Israelite, Persian, Greco-Macedonian, and Roman rule.

Dr. Stewart is Professor of Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley and has held the position of Chancellor's Research Professor since 1998. He was educated at Cambridge University where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. In addition to his archaeological fieldwork, Stewart is one of the foremost experts of Greek sculpture in academia today. He is the author of three major publications on Greek sculpture as well as the standard text used by colleges and universities world-wide. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. He has directed the UC-Berkeley excavation Project at Tel Dor since 1986.